Halloween Dream

My last dream of the night centered around Halloween. As usual, my dream setting and the people involved were not recognizable to me in my daytime life, but I seemed to be familiar with both in my dream state. Dreams of this nature make me wonder if we don't all have several lives going on at once - especially those of us who have a lot of things to do in one lifetime. A gallon of water poured into four quart vessels is still the same water, isn't it? I have had many extremely vivid and real dreams of a dark-haired woman I feel is me who lives in Cape Cod. One night, I dreamed she had to wait until midnight for a friend with a pickup truck to get off work and help her move a used washer into her basement. I woke the next morning as exhausted as I might have been if I had been up past midnight moving a large machine. I think I am aware of her, but she is not aware of me. Is she me or some aspect of me or are we connected somehow? Is she real or just a dream figure? I don't know, I just feel the affinity strongly.

The first time I delved into the fascinating subject of palmistry, I learned that I have a double "life line" in my palm. When I saw the words, I thought of my Cape Cod "sister" and got those little chill bumps. Could it indicate a double life? According to the book I was looking at, this gives me a guardian angel or protector who watches over me. Not all palmistry books I've perused mention the line. The most recent book I've enjoyed on the subject is "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Palmistry". I found it easy to use and enjoyable to read. According to the Guide, I have all the signs of being born to write, so here I am plunking away on the keys with my four best writing fingers. I have endless creative writing ideas, but will I ever memorize where the letters are on the keyboard, I wonder?

Palmistry interests me because I am a hand watcher. This might be due to my Gemini rising sign. Gemini rules the hands and Geminis often have busy hands, using them deftly in work, play, and while speaking. I like to look at people's hands and I check out a guy's hands even before I try to determine if the seat of his pants covers his back end fully. Remember the TV show, "MacGyver"? I watched it just for glimpses of his hands. Not a bad seat, either.

Alright, I started out writing about Halloween and jumped to palmistry and got completely lost in pants. There is a connecting link in my mind and I promise I will get to it by the end of my indirect rambling. Back to Halloween.

It is my favorite holiday. I have my sun, Jupiter, and Saturn all in the eighth house of my natal chart. The eighth house is the home of Scorpio, so even though my sun is Aquarius, this stellium, or group of planets, adds a strong Scorpio vibe to my nature and gives me a propensity to be drawn to and explore eighth house subjects, two of which are metaphysics and the occult. Occult means hidden. Scorpio is an intuitive and empathetic emotional water sign. Being able to see into others and to see beyond the veil of our 3-D world is an attribute many Scorpios or people with a busy eighth house may possess.

Many years ago, while I still lived on Long Island, I took a walk alone on a beautiful Halloween day through the woods of a nearby state park. As I walked, I began to think of Halloween (being my favorite holiday, it always has a way of giving me that happy kind of tingle and overall elevated mood) and how on All Hallows Eve, as it is formally named, the veil between the worlds becomes thin. "I wonder if I could see beyond the veil today?", I mused.

No sooner had I thought it, than it happened. Suddenly, I was surrounded by large oval-shaped lights, or beings of light as I thought them to be, although I saw no distinguishing features that would humanize them. They seemed to float a foot and a half above the ground and moved through the trees on either side of me as I walked. If I tried to look directly at one of them, I lost view of them all. As long as I relaxed my vision and looked ahead of me down the path, they remained in my peripheral field of view.

Sometimes retelling one of my paranormal experiences makes me wonder if such a thing did happen because it seems so unreal after the event occurs. But I know it was real and I think I've had some of these experiences so I can share them with others. Often, I find confirmation or validation in other places later on to remind me that what I experienced was real. Sylvia Browne says the Other Side is right here alongside our dimension - beings in that dimension are walking just a few feet above our ground. I got a little jolt when I read that. "See?", my inner voice said.

I finished writing my October lunar forecast the other day and got as excited as a kid before a holiday when I saw that Halloween this year dawns with the moon in Scorpio. Later in the day, the moon moves into Sagittarius. I cannot think of any more fitting energies to have on Halloween! And on a Friday! No post-Halloween have-to-go-to-school blues. The Scorpio mystery will build on Thursday, spill over into Friday morning, and then by Friday afternoon and evening, rambunctious and jovial Sagittarius energy will make for enthusiastic trick-or-treating and partying. Show-off Sag LOVES costumes and "let's pretend". Planetary windows like this don't come around too often, people, so if this is one of your favorite holidays, too, make the most of it. A month is the perfect amount of time to plan a party

Of course, be sure to include the Monster Mash in your music playlist. Maybe "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or "The Addams Family" if your party is PG, could be on mute on the TV as visual backdrop or be viewed as a main event of the party. Both are merrily macabre. And how about having a little candlelit table in a corner, behind an old Indian print bedspread where a gypsy palm reader (Could it be you? One month is plenty of time to practice.) reveals your guests' innermost secrets?

I have one other thought on this year's Halloween. The sky will be dark with just a small sliver of moon. On my son's third year of trick-or-treating, one home was handing out glo-sticks on strings for the kids to hang around their necks instead of candy. At home when we took stock of the booty, my son had eyes only for that glo-stick. Kids LOVE those glo-sticks. I've been to plenty of outdoor events where as soon as it turns dark, a vendor with a fistful of glo-sticks meanders through the crowd and kids are clamoring and parents are waving money in the air to get one. The best thing about giving a Halloween glo-stick treat this year (besides that it will not make the kids hyper or rot their teeth) is that it will help them be seen in the dark. And the kids will be so happy they wouldn't dream of playing tricks on you. Don't worry, they'll still get plenty of sugar from all the people who don't follow my brilliant advice!